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  • 71boat people — noun (plural) people who escape from bad conditions in their country in small boats …

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  • 72boat people — /ˈboʊt pipəl / (say boht peepuhl) plural noun people who leave their own country and travel in small boats to seek refuge in another country. {first with reference to refugees leaving Vietnam after the Chinese invasion of 1979} …

  • 73boat-deck — /ˈboʊt dɛk/ (say boht dek) noun the top deck of a ship where the small boats are carried …

  • 74boat — Preferably a watercraft, small in size but, as used in common parlance, it is a generic term for watercraft of different sizes, sometimes inclusive, but erroneously, according to mariners, of ships. Sometimes regarded in the more limited sense of …

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  • 75boat boom — noun : a spar at right angles to the side of a vessel at anchor to which small boats can be attached …

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  • 76PT boat — PT 105 at high speed PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol PT , for Patrol Torpedo ), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons… …

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  • 77Dragon boat — This article is about Dragon boats and racing. For the festivals and holidays associated with dragon boats, see Duanwu Festival. Dragon boat Traditional Chinese 龍舟 Simplified Chinese 龙舟 …

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  • 78Clinker (boat building) — A Viking longship, displaying the overlapping planks that characterize clinker construction. Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and, in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each… …

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  • 79Recreational boat fishing — Fly fishing from a dinghy Recreational fishermen usually fish either from a boat or from a shoreline or river bank. When fishing from a boat, or fishing vessel, pretty much any fishing technique can be used, from nets to fish traps, but some …

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  • 80The Open Boat — 1st US edition of The Open Boat, illustrated by Will H. Bradley The Open Boat is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane s experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of… …

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